interesting yes, inviting even, but Grotowski ran the best trained acting troupe in the western world. His productions took months, in some cases, years to rehearse. And even the adaptation you've just described calls for acrobatic, severely disciplined performers, responding to extraordinary physical, vocal and psychic demands. How can you suggest that the academy follow these models that clearly call for professional or at least quasi-professional commitment?

From people … dissatisfied with conditions in the normal theatre … who take it on themselves to create poor theatres with few actors, “chamber ensembles” which they might transform into institutes for the education of actors; or else from amateurs working on the boundaries of the professional theatre and who, on their own, achieve a technical standard which is far superior to that demanded by the prevailing theatre: in short, a few madmen who have nothing to lose and are not afraid of hard work